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Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 12:39 pm Post subject:

I've always liked the caligraphy strips. They are very spiffy. The transformation isn't something you see everyday._________________Before God created Las he pondered on all the aspects a woman might have, he considered which ones would look good super-inflated and which ones to leave alone.
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Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 12:43 pm Post subject:

It's something interesting and creative that I've not see anyone in any other webcomic doing. I like the calligraphy strips and how he uses the characters to mean things other than their standard meaning._________________TatWatch - The Artist is:IN!

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I always find the calligraphy strips interesting and cool to look at. It reminds me of a game we started playing in elementary school where you could turn the word "boy" into a picture of a boy's head. I always picture Tat having fun making these. _________________Live to laugh.

They're kanji - chinese symbols adapted for japanese a couple of thousand years ago, each of which expresses an idea or a word. I don't recognise today's one, because i'm still very much a beginner, but for example:

the thing about kanji is that there a specific ones and then some symbols that can be interpreted as anything in japanese (usually through context). translating a standalone symbol into english leaves it up to be alot of things. so every kanji strip means exactly what tat says it means.